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Lori Williams has over 15 years of experience in strategic planning, marketing, operations and finance. She has functioned as a business owner, corporate officer and consultant in a variety of
industries.
Through a combination of real life experiences and academia, she has developed a unique balance of intellect, experience and interpersonal skills.
Lori is the owner of a LW and Associates, a business consulting firm specializing in strategy and finance. As the Chief Strategist, Lori provides businesses with growth strategies designed to
increase revenues, profitability and build long-term sustainable growth.
In 2007 Lori founded Business Simply Put, a division and registered trade mark of LW and Associates, to provide smaller companies with affordable high-level information and advice. Business Simply
Put offers professionals access to business intelligence on key topics specific to small and medium-sized companies. This includes a wide variety of forums, including classes, seminars, webinar,
teleseminars, and products such as E-Books and E-Resources. Lori recognized the need for sound, simplified business wisdom and by combining experience, expertise and technology; she designed products
and services affordable to smaller companies.
Lori holds an MBA from Pepperdine University, BS Business and Management, an AA in Medical Science and a Practitioner’s license in NeuroLinguistic Programming. She is an adjunct professor at the
Lloyd Grief Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC, teaching the Business Plan Class and Feasibility Studies. She has been a requested speaker at business organizations and has addressed
esteemed audiences such as the IBM Big Blue Alumni, City Club, World Savings Bank, Citibank, and members of the Small Business Development Center located in California and Texas.
Lori is a published author. Her EBooks are distributed through Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Linkedin. She self-promotes her classes, seminars and workshops, in which she is solely responsible for
content and delivery.
She has an abundance of energy and believes anything is possible if you work hard and are committed to your dream.
Business Counsel A Forum for Ideas and Exchange: Becoming a leader--what it takes
Becoming a leader--what it takes
As a strategist, advising companies on business strategy, I must consider management's ability to lead the organization, as the best strategy will fail if managment is unable to clearly articulate the vision and provide staff with defined directives. Additionally, as the Chair of Pepperdine University Leadership Council I come into contact with business students, who strive to develop the skills needed to successfully lead an organization.
Given the importance of leadership skills, I invested some time pondering the answer to this crucial question--"What does it take to successfully lead an organization".
-I welcome your thoughts and additions.
A leader
A leader is able to
create a vision, clearly articulate direction, and inspire others by obtaining
commitment and getting people to take action.
Leaders show such a
conviction in their vision that they are able to empower others to desire
inclusion in the efforts.
A leader has the
ability to describe the goals of the vision in such a way that each participant
fully understands the mission, the purpose, the needed steps and their personal
accountability. With such clarity, the leader can encourage individualism while
knowing the collective effort will be fundamentally true to the ultimate goals.
Personal values
In order to be a
leader a person must possess a strong sense of identity, self-worth and
personal values. These three character traits will provide a leader with
integrity, compassion, and openness.
A sense of identity and integrity will promote fairness.
Self-worth and compassion provides the strength to stand against
opposing views, especially when it is needed to stand up for your beliefs.
Openness and commitment to personal values will allow a leader to make
the tough choices and support those less advantaged.
11/23/2010 10:14 AMwheelchair accessible vehicles wrote:
A lot of what makes a good leader is confidence...or self-confidence. A person who is meek cannot make a good leader (and I define meek very differently from humility, I do not consider them to the synonymous). I know that there is more to a good leader than just confidence, but I think that it is one of the biggest or essential factors in what makes a good leader. ...and I believe that in your brief article what you wrote covers confidence without actually saying the word. Reply to this
11/23/2010 11:43 AM
LW and Associates wrote:
I fully agree with your statement...and confidence often comes from experience. Reply to this
A lot of what makes a good leader is confidence...or self-confidence. A person who is meek cannot make a good leader (and I define meek very differently from humility, I do not consider them to the synonymous). I know that there is more to a good leader than just confidence, but I think that it is one of the biggest or essential factors in what makes a good leader. ...and I believe that in your brief article what you wrote covers confidence without actually saying the word.
Reply to this
I fully agree with your statement...and confidence often comes from experience.
Reply to this